Gulf Shores Beach Trip!

At the Gulf Shores State Park Pier

at the Gulf Shores State Park lake!

showing Dad some cool stuff on one of the trails at the Gulf Shores State Park

A little night swimming :)

Jackson enjoyed the water most at night!

All the kids getting soaking wet after dinner at Lulu's!

The Ballard grand kids!

Weird to think that next year there will be a 7 month old little girl in this pic!

Dan, Amy, Avery, Will, and Miles

On a boat ride at the Gulf Shores State Park lake.

At one of our favorite restaurants, Sea and Suds!

Swimming with Mom in our pool!

On Mother's Day

Mother's Day again!

The kids did a great job of burring Miles!

"Beash, beash, beash" as he said all week :)

Sweet Will was really good at sharing and poor Jackson was not having it most of the time :( He is going to have a rude awaking with his baby sister!

Sweet Avery!

I know it looks like I uploaded a bunch of pics, but I actually took 619 pics! So this is a REALLY short version of all that we did! hahaha We had the best week at Gulf Shores, not a single day of rain too! All the kids had a blast and it was great to spend a week with Amy, Dan, Miles, Avery, and Will because we don't get to see them near as much as we would like to! We went to the beach and pool everyday, went on boat rides, ate the best food, laughed almost all day, visited the new Pier, went shopping at the outlets, went fishing, played at the lagoon and much more! Jackson started talking so much on the vacation and his new favorite words to say are, beach, boat, Will, home, and so much more everyday! When you ask him "can you say Cooper"? he says, "no". And is saying no and yeah to so much more lately. "do you want to go downstairs"?...."no". hahaha